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Napoleon Bonaparte and the Congress of Vienna - Part One

Institute of Catholic Culture

Few men had a more direct hand in the creation of the modern world than the infamous Emperor of Revolutionary France. Napoleon’s spectacular conquests transformed Europe in the early nineteenth century, exporting the ideals (and the turmoil) of the French Revolution to an entire continent. In this series, learn how Napoleon’s dramatic rise and fall set the stage for the subsequent development of the modern world as we know it.